abrownbag

No. What I’m saying is I don’t even know what I’ve copyrighted as I never received any notification from YouTube about any strikes.

I never received any emails about strikes no even though I would get notification emails about comments etc to [email protected] through those randomly generated page emails? I'm not sure how youtube works when you don't make the channels with an email.

I would just like to put on record it was never my intention to steal from other content creators. The initial idea came as a service I could provide to streamers. I pivoted as one of my streamer friends became popular through a popular clip channel. I figured Instead of trying to charge my friends for a service if I could get one clip channel big enough I could just reproduce that success for all our own clips...

I mean like the first rule of tech is don't be a dick right???

I just feel like it's very unfair of you to assume I'd eventually go down a specific route before it played out.

Also losing my entire livelihood for a programming project hurts enough even without your words.

That's the thing! If you read the post I NEVER received ANY warnings... Legit just banned for three strikes over night with NO emails about any of the copyright strikes. No way to appeal or contact youtube about what videos had strikes or on what channel. All I have is speculation based on the termination emails I received.

I need to make this clear now. NONE of the videos were MONETIZED... None of the channels reached watch-time criteria to be monetized because youtube doesn't count shorts. ALL clips where EDITED into shorts and given proper attribution back to the streamers with links in the description and video etc. Some of the streamers even commented and I was able to pin/promo their streams in the comments as well!

MY MAIN CHANNEL. That is ALL purely my content was INCLUDED in the ban. I made the shorts channel in the youtube channel switcher section and they didn't have emails associted. Somehow I could still get emails to my [email protected] account through random page emails like: [email protected] (they route to my main I guess?)

I'm sorry that I'm not a very good writer and didn't detail all this in my medium post but I was definitely NOT just ripping content as my own and getting paid for it. I only had revenue from my MAIN channel which was terminated with the rest.

They're not rips. They are reformatted clips with proper attribution and links to the parties channel.

Most of us on twitch want our clips to be seen in hopes it drives traffic back to our content. There are many shameless channels ripping content and promoting it as their own but mine where never like that and many smaller streamers commented on the videos allowing me to promo them even more.

Once some of the channels took off I even had submissions I was able to add.

Sorry for the ramble but I really don't want people I was just out stealing content...

Also I am in California but unsure how to exercise that right with youtube.

I'm doing my best to have hope and reaching out to everyone I know but I've exhausted the resources I have as a smaller creator. Outlook bleak to be honest.

EDIT: Actually I haven't tried writing a letter and sending it to the address listed on contact... I'll do that today too

I understand where he's coming from. Maybe having some branded url with a hosted alternative and shipping that to emails could have helped in the inevitable event something like this happened?

But I feel this post. This has been my exact experience. As someone who used multiple platforms to build an audience and try and grow I have retained some crossover but at the end of the day losing that source of revenue is just too big of a hit.

I don't know how I could possibly convince youtubers not to watch my videos on youtube realistically...

It’s okay! Thanks for taking the time to read/reply it means a lot.

Thanks everyone who upvoted to help raise awareness too. This was my last resort so I really appreciate all the help/kind words.

I really wish at the very least they would have given me a way to respond/contact them vs termination with no hope of response.

Good advice. I have some of them on twitch and in discord. Unfortunately a wide section of followers do not crossover. No matter what I do they don’t seem to want to leave their home platform(YouTube).

More like hoping to reach someone on the inside that can help but if not at least I put wrote it down... help a bit.

First step was to kill myself but the suicide hotline stopped me.